- Colleges are increasingly using data to measure their faculty members’ productivity and to compare them with professors at peer institutions. Professors complain that such metrics provide an inaccurate and incomplete picture of their activities, but colleges say the careful use of data from an outside source provides credibility.
- Gaining faculty approval is key to the long-term success of any effort to measure faculty productivity.
- Administrators need to be sensitive to disciplinary differences: A metric that works in civil engineering might not work in English or, for that matter, chemical engineering.
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